Natural Language Conversations - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either by creating collaborative... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

31 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

that pioneered conversational commerce. At Hilma, Hilary leverages her personal passion for consumer products and integrative health with her Harvard MBA, and impressive professional history of launching new consumer brands, to build and... View Details

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Placement - Doctoral

Performance in Healthcare Delivery Advisors: Robert S. Huckman , Guy David , and Ariel D. Stern Close Management 2023 Laura Weimer Management, 2023 Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point (2024-) Dissertation: The dynamic View Details

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Business & Environment

Conversation with Mark Kenber 12 FEB 2025 | Climate Rising This episode, the third in our series on Voluntary Carbon Markets, features Mark Kenber, Executive Director of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI). Mark has... View Details

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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

region or with a partner in the region Nonprofit organizations Government agencies, especially those working closely with the private sector The program content is global in nature and applicable to the Chinese business environment. The... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Duolingo. To date, Duolingo had focused almost exclusively on language learning with an estimated market size of $17 billion in 2020. As a technology-first company, Duolingo recognized the enormous potential of Gen AI to power innovative... View Details

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care (Harvard Business Press, 2009), explains how to create more knowledgeable, flexible, and responsive delivery organizations. “Some of the most important innovations are not technologic—they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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Program Requirements - Doctoral

Learning (Statistics 195) Probability Theory (Statistics 210) Statistical Inference (Statistics 211) Bayesian Data Analysis (Statistics 220) Incomplete Multivariate Data (Statistics 232) Sequential Decision Making (Statistics 234) Advanced Demand Modeling (MIT 1.205)... View Details

09 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

respond, "Clay, you have no idea how much it costs to create a new sales force. We need to leverage our existing sales team." The language of the disruptive attackers was completely different: "It's time to create the sales... View Details

17 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

shift in how we think about and use teamwork. Edmondson has been studying teamwork for two decades. In that time, "we've seen fewer stable, well-designed, well-composed teams, simply because of the nature of the work, which is more... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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Frequently Asked Questions - Doctoral

completion of an undergraduate degree from a university or college where the primary language of instruction is English. A U.S. master’s degree will not supersede a U.S. bachelor’s degree in this case. Because of the rigorous View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Off" that explores the intersection of decarbonization and public health. While decarbonization requires shifting away from fossil fuels, this episode emphasizes the equally crucial health reasons to do so – especially for natural gas... View Details

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

naturally that way; I knew too much about the politics of Asia when I got shot down. I think there was a lot of damage done by optimists; other writers from other wars share that opinion. The problem is, some people believe what... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

12 Mar 2024
HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology

15 Feb 2022
Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

quickly in his younger years, called fluid intelligence, naturally decline toward midlife. He told a friend: “I have everything to make me happy and contented, but life has become very wearisome to me.” Yet people on the back end of life... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting

to think about the language they use when bringing others into the work of anti-racism. Manso-Brown suggests several sentences that can empower people to interrupt language that reinforces racism in View Details

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California - Global

enormous potential of Gen AI to power innovative products, such as conversational language practice. However, Hacker envisioned an even broader future in which AI could transform the app into a comprehensive... View Details

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

coauthor of the new book Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, for an intimate, powerful conversation that touches on: the mistake people make in thinking that money, power, and fame will bring them happiness;... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

17 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

“Our conversion rate from click to sign-up was 50 percent.” “We interviewed a bunch of people and they said they’d use our product if we built it.” These quotes suggest the entrepreneurs may have found an audience interested enough to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Research Computing Services

analyses, natural language processing & more. Artificial Intelligence (AI) RCS team members have experience applying AI techniques to academic research. Our Team (login required) RCS staff include... View Details

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